I’ve eaten raw once at a restaurant in SF and it was delicious and made me feel good eating it.

A few years later on, I was looking for vegan recipes, which is how I found Kevin & Annmarie’s site, looking for ideas.

Raw looks Rawesome! Starting toward a healthier diet and habits is Rawesome and encouraging, so thanks for the sites, recipes and notes generously offered by all.

An fyi to the first few posters about mushrooms… long ago (in the 90s) Dr. Andrew Weil used to say he stayed away from raw (esp. button) mushrooms and celery, because both had possible links to causing cancer. I haven’t checked his information lately, but I will investigate more because of this.

I’m half Japanese and half Okinawan so have those dna and food/health strains flowing thru me. Dr. Weil also researched the Japanese and Okinawan diet because of longevity. Along with the Jasmine tea he spoke of (which my grannie in Hawaii sipped all day long)–what he didn’t comment about is that Okinawan’s eat A LOT of pork. It seemed as tho my grandpa ate it 2 meals a day! Washed down with a glass of scotch when younger or Manichevitz wine when I visited him in his 90s. But, he at only lunch and dinner (that I witnessed), always sitting down at the kitchen table. He never snacked or drank in between.

Both cultures rely on cooked foods tho most of it is lots of vegetables and rice with flesh more for flavoring. Raw was always cured, like making sunomono, or pickling, like sukemono. Only dessert was officially raw, as it was always some kind of fruit.

Guess for me, growing up in these households and observing people’s habits up close and personal, the main thing is that they didn’t eat large quantities of food, and prep food thinking of nutrition first, not taste, or to use food to soothe emotional cravings. (Those last two food-related obsessions are what I am partly dealing with now, food as distraction. Why I want to get back to food as nutrition!)

And, all of the food eaten was prepared at home; much of it grown at home (even chickens and eggs, almonds, walnuts, avocados, persimmons).

Eating more raw makes sense to me now, as our post-modern lifestyles are so sedentary. We don’t live agricultural lifestyles any longer which required lots of food as fuel for hard physical labor.

Thanks for allowing me a space to think these things thru while learning new idea and most importantly recipes and nutritional content!

Rawesome!

What makes it a Rawsome day? My daily morning fresh greens based juices, finding wonderful, tasty, sweet, ripe mangoes at the grocery store (a short lived treat where I live), having a raw banana, carob “milkshake” for breakfast…just because I can because it is good for me LOL !

Its a Rawsome day when I wake up in Maui

Its a rawsome day when we meet other healthy people. EX: We went to a baby shower, yes Kevin we brought a Kale Salad, and it was the first thing to go! AND someone actually brought a huge pitcher of Smoothie!! Thats rawsome! We loved it!

Thanks for introducing us to sooo many Rawsome people!

Love the recipe.

Aloha~

Answer: Seeing my friends Shivie & Cemaaj doing what they do best = “the giving of raw food.”

Continued love to Team Raw,
Iyengar Yoga Teacher,
tony eason
http://ynottony.com